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It is named for its creators: civil engineer Herbert Saffir and meteorologist Robert Simpson. Saffir was the one who first came up with the wind scale and presented it to Simpson, then head of the...
Both scales measure the intensity of rotating storms (the F or Fujita scale rates tornadoes while the Saffir-Simpson scale is used for hurricanes). Both scales have corresponding wind ranges for each...